Shabait.com (Asmara)
24 November 2007
Asmara — The Ministry of Labor and Human Welfare branch in the Central region in collaboration with different institutions offered vocational training to 109 street children, orphans and needy ones.
The two-year long course involved 18 fields, including wood and metal works, electronics, machine shop, mechanics, auto-mechanics, arts and painting, among others.
Over 1.2 million Nakfa was disbursed for the course and the trainees were receiving 500 Nakfa monthly, in addition to other incentives given to them by government and private institutions that organized the training.
The director of the Ministry's branch office in the region, Mr. Berhane Woldekidan, handed certificates to the trainees.
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